Robert Villalobos, MD

"Dr. Robert L. Villalobos is a board certified ophthalmologist who provides comprehensive eye care with an emphasis in “medical retina”, or diseases affecting the retina.

Dr. Villalobos received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at El Paso in El Paso, Texas, and then graduated from medical school at Universidad Autonoma de Cd. Juarez in Cd, Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. After completing an internship in internal medicine at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Chattanooga, Tennessee, he finished an internal medicine and ophthalmology residency program in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Dr. Villalobos went on to complete a medical retina fellowship in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dr. Villalobos is licensed in New Mexico and is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the New Mexico Medical Society. He is involved in many local civic organizations. Before joining Southwestern Eye Center, Dr. Villalobos had his own private practice for over 20 years.

Dr. Villalobos and his wife reside in Las Cruces. His hobbies include reading, travel, sports and trivia. Dr. Villalobos is fluent in Spanish."

"Southwestern Eye Center was established in 1982 in Mesa, Arizona, by Dr. Lothaire Bluth. For more than 35 years, the practice has grown and continues to offer world-class technology and down-to-earth values.

Dr. Bluth pioneered the concept of bringing the doctor to the patient and bringing comprehensive eye care to rural and underserved areas throughout Arizona. On a given morning, three to four airplanes take Southwestern Eye Center ophthalmologists and their crews to outlying offices and ambulatory surgery centers where operations for cataracts, retinal disease, glaucoma, and oculoplastics are performed on those who are unable to travel to or afford care in larger metropolitan centers. Offering outpatient surgical procedures locally allows patients to receive superior and more convenient care at a fraction of the cost the same procedures required in a metropolitan or hospital setting.

More recently, Southwestern Eye Center partnered with Barnet Dulaney Perkins Eye Center as a founding practice in the American Vision Partners network. We will continue to operate all of our centers with the same level of quality you expect, and you will work with the same doctors and staff you have always trusted for your ophthalmology needs."